LEWANDOWSKI SCORES HIS FIRST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GOAL FOR BARCA
Robert Lewandowski first-half
Victoria Plzen:
2 goals
2 shots on target
70.6% accurate passes
1 big chance created
1 Key Pass
1 foul won
Unstoppable.
Internazionale have only opened a UEFA Champions League campaign with a victory in one of the last six tournaments when they’ve played their first game at home (D3 L2), beating Spurs 2-1 in 2018-19
Bayern Munich keeping up with trend👀
LEWANDOWSKI BRACE BEFORE THE HALF
He moves ahead of Karim Benzema for third most goals (88) in Champions League history!
Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has scored more goals than any other player in the UEFA Champions League across the last three seasons
He is only the third player to score for both Barcelona and Bayern Munich in the competition after Mark van Bommel and Coutinho.
When Giovanni Simeone was 13 he got the Champions League logo tattooed on his arm, much to the anger and dismay of his parents. His excuse? Promising that he would kiss it when he scores in the competition.
Tonight, on his Champions League debut, he scored against Liverpool and kissed the tattoo
Robert Lewandowski is the first player with a UCL hat trick for three clubs:
Borussia Dortmund
Bayern Munich
Barcelona
The last 5 Champions League hat tricks have been scored by either Robert Lewandowski or Karim Benzema. Levels
Most Champions league hat-tricks:
◎ 8 - Cristiano Ronaldo
◎ 8 - Lionel Messi
◉ 6 - Robert Lewandowski
Lewy is the first to score one for three different clubs.
Robert Lewandowski’s #UCL debut by club:
No goal for Borussia Dortmund
No goal for Bayern Munich
Hat-trick for Barcelona
Liverpool have lost three UCL group stage games since the start of the 2019/20 season:
◉ 2-0 vs Napoli (2019/20)
◉ 0-2 vs Atalanta (2020/21)
◉ 4-1 vs Napoli (2022/23)
The Italian Job(s).
Bayern’s last 29 UCL group stage games:
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They have not lost one since September 2017 against PSG.
Most Champions League goals scored in the UCL history:
140 - Cristiano Ronaldo
125 - Lionel Messi
89- Robert Lewandowski
86 - Karim Benzema
Lewy takes third… for now.
3 - Liverpool have suffered the heaviest defeat by an English Premier League side in their opening game of a UEFA Champions League campaign since Arsenal lost 3-0 to Internazionale in 2003-04 - tonight was the Reds’ joint-heaviest defeat overall in the competition. Chaotic.
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Bayern Munich have won 19 straight opening day Champions League games